February 10, 2013, 3:00AM

Conservatives often point out that laws, no matter how benign they may appear, have unintended consequences. They can reverberate in ways that not many people foresaw and nobody wanted: Raising the minimum wage can increase unemployment; prohibition can create black markets. The efforts in many cities to discourage the use of plastic bags demonstrate that such unintended consequences can be, among other things, kind of gross. Full story »

August 04, 2012, 4:41PM

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 is the signature piece of legislation of this Medina doctor's lifetime. History and economic destiny will judge its wisdom and expose its unintended consequences, writes Dr. J.C. Noreika, a 30-year medical practioner, who worries the medicine's higher calling may be one casualty. Full story »

May 20, 2012, 5:46PM

It's unpleasant to digest the news that "from 1980 to 2005, 80 percent of the total increase in Americans' incomes went to the top one percent," as the senior editor for the New Republic reports. Full story »

September 28, 2009, 6:41PM

A small group of homeless sex offenders have set up camp in a densely wooded area behind a suburban Atlanta office park, directed there by probation officers who say it's a place of last resort for those with nowhere else to go. Full story »